[OE-core] dbus with tests

[Koen Kooi]

Op 14 aug. 2012, om 13:57 heeft Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On 08/14/2012 02:11 PM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>> In the process of updating dbus, tests (in my opinion) are mandatory.
>> 
>> While compiling dbus with tests, dbus and dbus-glib are needed. To
>> compile dbus-glib, dbus is needed (obviously). The only solution (to
>> compile dbus with tests) that i found is to create a new recipe named
>> dbus-tests where to compile dbus with --enable-tests
>> --enable-embedded-tests, skip write to sysroot (noexec) and just package
>> dbus-tests.
>> 
>> 1. Do you guys know a better solution for this?
> 
> We have started to think/chat about this, there was another patch on the list recently that Mark Hatle and I talked about tests.
> 
> I think having the tests enabled with DISTRO_FEATURE would allow for the flexibility of enabling then without always incurring the cost /overhead of longer compile times.
> 
> Can you incorporate the changes to the core recipe with out having to add a new dbus-tests recipe if you use DISTRO_FEATURE?
> 
> 
>> 2. What would be a good path to use for installing tests?
> Same here, disucssion started.I would like to see tests go into ${datadir}/${BPN} (/usr/share/${BPN}

$datadir is not for executables, but for data

> .  /opt was discussed, but I think we want to leave that clean and empty.

/opt is for 3rd party binary-only stuff, it should *never* show up in a system package.